New Delta Green book, if you help
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masque12I don't work for Arc Dream or Pagan Publishing, but I like Delta Green stuff, so I'm passing on this announcement:
Here's the link.
Arc Dream Publishing and Pagan Publishing are working together again to produce a new collection of terrors for Delta Green.
Last year, Arc Dream and Pagan Publishing produced the long-awaited “Delta Green: Eyes Only,” a gorgeous hardcover sourcebook for Pagan’s award-winning Delta Green game setting. Despite having only 1,000 copies released, “Eyes Only” is now a finalist for the industry-standard Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Game Supplement of 2007.
We want to do it again with “Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity.” The authors of Delta Green have been working on material for “Targets of Opportunity” for years. This fundraiser will tell us if there’s enough interest to finish developing it and to print a limited hardcover edition of the same quality as “Delta Green: Eyes Only.”
ABOUT ‘DELTA GREEN: TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY’
“Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity” is a conglomeration of evils, many of them whispered in hints and rumors since the earliest days of Delta Green.
“Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity” includes:
BLACK COD ISLAND: An inhuman menace rises from the frigid waters of southern Alaska. Three hundred years ago the Haida Indians fought to stamp it out. They failed. Can a handful of Delta Green agents fare any better?
M-EPIC: More than 100 years ago, Canada’s Northwest Mounted Police established Division M to investigate unusual deaths in the far north. Over the years the division grew, slowly and quietly, as one after another of its own men died in bizarre attacks and uncanny circumstances. Today, M-EPIC is a top-secret agency with a nationwide charter. Few of its members know of its long history of using supernatural methods to battle the supernatural itself. Even fewer comprehend the terrible consequences that they face.
DISCIPLES OF THE WORM: From ancient alchemy to the latest biotech, humanity has always quested for a means to defeat death. For some, fearful of death or desperate to fulfill some mission in life, no price is too high. For Delta Green, a loathsome 20-year-old case still demands an answer to a crucial question: How far will you go to save humanity?
THE DE MONTE CLAN: Hurricane Katrina was one of the most devastating storms ever to strike the United States. It ravaged New Orleans and left the proud city a flooded wreck. For humanity, Katrina was an unspeakable tragedy. For Delta Green, Katrina was an opportunity. As emergency workers from every state and federal agency descend on the city, the rebuilding of New Orleans is a chance to strike at a long-festering horror. The target is an old and influential family whose people are something other than human, who see New Orleans’ plight as an opportunity of their own—and who have become quite skilled at destroying merely human enemies.
THE CULT OF TRANSCENDENCE: For centuries a cult ruled by Nyarlathotep, the mind and soul of the Outer Gods, has conspired to rule the world from behind the scenes, spreading its influence into the halls of power. Today its goals are more subtle and sinister than ever, guessed only vaguely even by its loyalest adherents. It may be the deadliest threat Delta Green has ever faced.
“Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity” is a hardcover roleplaying game sourcebook written by Adam Scott Glancy, Dennis Detwiller, Greg Stolze, Kenneth Hite, Warren Banks and Shane Ivey, edited by Shane Ivey and Adam Crossingham, and illustrated by “Delta Green: Eyes Only” artist Todd Shearer.
WHY FUNDABLE?
We’re going the Fundable route for “Targets of Opportunity” because our two publishing companies have their meager capital tied up in many other product lines, and, frankly, producing a book like this costs an awful lot of money. If you help us raise the money for it, we’ll produce the book.
WHAT WILL THIS FUNDRAISER DO?
If this fundraiser succeeds, Arc Dream Publishing and Pagan Publishing will print a limited run of 1,000 copies of “Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity.”
For each $50 pledge, you’ll get one free copy of “Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity” sent by priority mail anywhere in the United States.
For international fans, unfortunately, the high cost of shipping requires a much higher pledge. Please pledge as usual with this page, but if the fundraiser succeeds you'll need to send us another $25 via PayPal to cover the increased shipping cost. For that $75 total we'll ship one free copy of "Targets of Opportunity" by airmail anywhere outside the U.S. Please contact shane -at- arcdream -dot- com for instructions.
After it’s printed and released, any remaining copies of “Targets of Opportunity” will sell for $39.95 plus the cost of shipping, which is typically $13 or so for priority mail in the U.S. and $25 to $30 for international airmail.
WHY DO YOU WANT SO MUCH MONEY?
“Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity” will be similar in scope to “Delta Green: Eyes Only,” and “Eyes Only” was an expensive book. Printing even a limited run of 1,000 copies costs thousands and thousands of dollars, and our artists, designers, editors and writers need to be paid for their hard work. Fundable and Paypal each take a commission. And we need to leave a buffer for people who pledge but need to cancel at the last minute.
All in all, if this fundraiser succeeds it will give us the money we need to manufacture “Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity” up to our best standards, without disrupting our many other commitments.
WHAT IF THIS FUNDRAISER FAILS?
If this fundraiser fails to generate the minimum amount, “Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity” will have to wait until we generate the cash to produce it the old-fashioned way—by waiting until our current busy release schedule brings in enough capital to finish and print it.
If Arc Dream’s games “Wild Talents” and “Monsters and Other Childish Things” do well, and if Pagan does well with upcoming sourcebooks such as “Mysteries of Mesoamerica,” “Bumps in the Night” and “Final Flight,” then we may be able to move forward on “Targets of Opportunity” in 2009. But that’s impossible to predict until we see how those products do.
Of course, it should go without saying, if we can’t get a few hundred enthusiastic pledges our faith in Delta Green fandom will be shaken. No, not shaken—broken, fractured, shattered to its core. Pledge now, you Keepers of the Faith.
Here's the link again.
Here's the link.
Arc Dream Publishing and Pagan Publishing are working together again to produce a new collection of terrors for Delta Green.
Last year, Arc Dream and Pagan Publishing produced the long-awaited “Delta Green: Eyes Only,” a gorgeous hardcover sourcebook for Pagan’s award-winning Delta Green game setting. Despite having only 1,000 copies released, “Eyes Only” is now a finalist for the industry-standard Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Game Supplement of 2007.
We want to do it again with “Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity.” The authors of Delta Green have been working on material for “Targets of Opportunity” for years. This fundraiser will tell us if there’s enough interest to finish developing it and to print a limited hardcover edition of the same quality as “Delta Green: Eyes Only.”
ABOUT ‘DELTA GREEN: TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY’
“Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity” is a conglomeration of evils, many of them whispered in hints and rumors since the earliest days of Delta Green.
“Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity” includes:
BLACK COD ISLAND: An inhuman menace rises from the frigid waters of southern Alaska. Three hundred years ago the Haida Indians fought to stamp it out. They failed. Can a handful of Delta Green agents fare any better?
M-EPIC: More than 100 years ago, Canada’s Northwest Mounted Police established Division M to investigate unusual deaths in the far north. Over the years the division grew, slowly and quietly, as one after another of its own men died in bizarre attacks and uncanny circumstances. Today, M-EPIC is a top-secret agency with a nationwide charter. Few of its members know of its long history of using supernatural methods to battle the supernatural itself. Even fewer comprehend the terrible consequences that they face.
DISCIPLES OF THE WORM: From ancient alchemy to the latest biotech, humanity has always quested for a means to defeat death. For some, fearful of death or desperate to fulfill some mission in life, no price is too high. For Delta Green, a loathsome 20-year-old case still demands an answer to a crucial question: How far will you go to save humanity?
THE DE MONTE CLAN: Hurricane Katrina was one of the most devastating storms ever to strike the United States. It ravaged New Orleans and left the proud city a flooded wreck. For humanity, Katrina was an unspeakable tragedy. For Delta Green, Katrina was an opportunity. As emergency workers from every state and federal agency descend on the city, the rebuilding of New Orleans is a chance to strike at a long-festering horror. The target is an old and influential family whose people are something other than human, who see New Orleans’ plight as an opportunity of their own—and who have become quite skilled at destroying merely human enemies.
THE CULT OF TRANSCENDENCE: For centuries a cult ruled by Nyarlathotep, the mind and soul of the Outer Gods, has conspired to rule the world from behind the scenes, spreading its influence into the halls of power. Today its goals are more subtle and sinister than ever, guessed only vaguely even by its loyalest adherents. It may be the deadliest threat Delta Green has ever faced.
“Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity” is a hardcover roleplaying game sourcebook written by Adam Scott Glancy, Dennis Detwiller, Greg Stolze, Kenneth Hite, Warren Banks and Shane Ivey, edited by Shane Ivey and Adam Crossingham, and illustrated by “Delta Green: Eyes Only” artist Todd Shearer.
WHY FUNDABLE?
We’re going the Fundable route for “Targets of Opportunity” because our two publishing companies have their meager capital tied up in many other product lines, and, frankly, producing a book like this costs an awful lot of money. If you help us raise the money for it, we’ll produce the book.
WHAT WILL THIS FUNDRAISER DO?
If this fundraiser succeeds, Arc Dream Publishing and Pagan Publishing will print a limited run of 1,000 copies of “Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity.”
For each $50 pledge, you’ll get one free copy of “Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity” sent by priority mail anywhere in the United States.
For international fans, unfortunately, the high cost of shipping requires a much higher pledge. Please pledge as usual with this page, but if the fundraiser succeeds you'll need to send us another $25 via PayPal to cover the increased shipping cost. For that $75 total we'll ship one free copy of "Targets of Opportunity" by airmail anywhere outside the U.S. Please contact shane -at- arcdream -dot- com for instructions.
After it’s printed and released, any remaining copies of “Targets of Opportunity” will sell for $39.95 plus the cost of shipping, which is typically $13 or so for priority mail in the U.S. and $25 to $30 for international airmail.
WHY DO YOU WANT SO MUCH MONEY?
“Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity” will be similar in scope to “Delta Green: Eyes Only,” and “Eyes Only” was an expensive book. Printing even a limited run of 1,000 copies costs thousands and thousands of dollars, and our artists, designers, editors and writers need to be paid for their hard work. Fundable and Paypal each take a commission. And we need to leave a buffer for people who pledge but need to cancel at the last minute.
All in all, if this fundraiser succeeds it will give us the money we need to manufacture “Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity” up to our best standards, without disrupting our many other commitments.
WHAT IF THIS FUNDRAISER FAILS?
If this fundraiser fails to generate the minimum amount, “Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity” will have to wait until we generate the cash to produce it the old-fashioned way—by waiting until our current busy release schedule brings in enough capital to finish and print it.
If Arc Dream’s games “Wild Talents” and “Monsters and Other Childish Things” do well, and if Pagan does well with upcoming sourcebooks such as “Mysteries of Mesoamerica,” “Bumps in the Night” and “Final Flight,” then we may be able to move forward on “Targets of Opportunity” in 2009. But that’s impossible to predict until we see how those products do.
Of course, it should go without saying, if we can’t get a few hundred enthusiastic pledges our faith in Delta Green fandom will be shaken. No, not shaken—broken, fractured, shattered to its core. Pledge now, you Keepers of the Faith.
Here's the link again.
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Date: 2008-05-19 10:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-19 11:41 am (UTC)The other thing to keep in mind, however, is that this is for the limited edition hardcover. This year they're doing a cheaper, softcover version of the last book, Eyes Only, and I assume they'll end up doing the same thing with this book eventually. Me, I like hardcovers, and I wish they'd hurry up and reprint the old supplement Countdown as a hardcover, like they did with the core book.
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Date: 2008-05-19 06:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-19 06:36 pm (UTC)